Information is an Indirect Representation

Information is an Indirect Representation

The representation of information enables communication between observers. It describes things from the third person indirect perspective of an observer. Therein is the problem. The representation of existence is direct. Existence cannot represent itself indirectly from the third person perspective of an observer. Existence is logically prior to observation. Something has to exist before it can be described using information. Particulars in existence can only represent themselves directly from their own first person direct perspective. In addition, because information must describe things from the third person indirect perspective of an observer, it must use a fixed context free encoding to provide a shared basis for the communication of meaning between observers using a shared communication protocol. The purpose of the representation of existence is the direct physical representation of existence, not the indirect communication of information about existence to an external observer. Consequently, the representation of existence does not need to use a fixed context free encoding, and it categorically does not need to represent itself abstractly, or indirectly.

Mathematics is proven incomplete by Gödel’s Incompleteness theorems.[8,9,10] Mathematics is incomplete because it is an indirect representation. Indirect representations are incomplete because they cannot represent anything directly. That means mathematics cannot represent itself directly. It is impossible for mathematics to represent things directly because it is based on axiomatic set theory. The most commonly accepted theory for the foundation of mathematics is the Zermello- Fraenkel, with Axiom of Choice, or ‘ZFC’ set theory. [7] There are many alternative set theories, but they all have one thing in common. They are all indirect representations.